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Capsize Drill: In Practice the Crew Remain In the Atlantic As She Is Hauled Over By crane So That They Will Fall Beneath the Hull Where They Would Probably Be Should the Boat Be Capsized at Sea In A
Capsize drill: in practice, the crew remain in the Atlantic as she is hauled over bycrane so that they will fall beneath the hull, where they would probably be should the boat be capsized at sea.
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Category: Photographs
A Small Boat
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—4th October. A small boat had capsized; she was picked up, but her crew of two could not be found. One had swum ashore, but the other was lost.—Rewards.
£27 11*. 6d..
From An Original Idea by Henry Greathead
Jn Sunday, 15 March 1789 a ship, the Adventure of Newcastle, began the process which led to today's lifeboats.
Adventure was wrecked at the mouth of the Tyne while thousands of onlookers watched helplessly from the...
Category: Articles
Centenary Publications and Souvenirs
" Britain's Life-boats : The Story of a Century of Heroic Service." By Major A. J. DAWSON, with an Introduction by H.R.H. the PBI.VCE OF WALES, K.Gr., President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, and a Fore- word by...
Category: Advertisement
The Fraserburgh Motor Fishing Boat Violet
FEBRUARY 19TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 2.30 in the afternoon the life-boat coxswain saw a fishing boat heading for the harbour from the south. A gale was blowing from the north-west and the seas were very heavy on the...
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When four friends went diving in Liverpool Bay last November they checked the weather and had all the right equipment, but a change in the weather, a faulty VHP radio and a marker buoy which didn't behave as it should conspired to put...
Fargo
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 5.50 p.m. on 9th August, 1966, distress flares were seen coming from the auxiliary yacht Fargo off the West Holm buoy. At 6.3 the life-boat Frederick Edward Crick proceeded in a westerly gale and a rough sea. The tide...
New Life-Boats
BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; HORN- SEA, YORKSHIRE; MABLETHORPE, LIN- COLNSHIRE ; MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND ; THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE ; and RAMSGATE, KENT. — The Life-boats placed by the Institution on these Stations have recently been replaced...
Category: Inaugurations
The Life of Henry Blogg
IN his Henry Blogg of Cromer (Harrap I5/-), Mr. Cyril Jolly has undertaken with considerable success the important task of writing the biography of the life-boat coxswain who received the most medals for gallantry and won the greatest...
Category: Articles
Daedalus
Early on the morning of the 17th July a tele- phone message was received from the Needles Signal Station that a small yacht, anchored W. of Shingle Bank Buoy, was burning flares and making S.O.S. signals on a lamp. A fresh E, breeze was...